Friend of mine was dating a neuroscience PhD in Syndey, Australia. When they met, he was near flat broke and moved in just to help defray the cost of rent.
A couple years later, he was approached by a Chinese recruiter that offered him a $2M signing bonus and a $1.5M salary to move to Tsinghua University and join their $10M/year neuroscience program. They literally don’t know what to do with all the money and mostly continue to live these modest lives with comically oversized bank accounts. He gets to play with cutting edge equipment alongside a sizeable staff. She takes care of a small house in the country and raises bunnies for fun.
Whatever you do, don’t ask them to talk about the government haha.
Also true of the US and UK right now.
“hur durr your country also bad”
We can make fun of multiple authoritarian countries at once thank you. It dilutes the point to toss it in every single time with those specifics.
The OP to me was framing it in a way that “China Bad”, and that sort of thought terminating rhetoric is what gets us into terrible situations in the first place.
Calling out that two western “bastions” of democracy like the US and UK are going through similar struggles right now, re-frames the comment to show how silly calling out China for this as if western countries don’t also have their flavor of the same thing, really is.
Every country has their problems. Saying China doesn’t let you say bad things about China so that’s why you shouldn’t live in a country that pays for your healthcare, ensures its people aren’t starving, has a great educational system, amazing public transportation, is investing heavily in STEM, and is paying a wild salary rate while you’re there; is just a silly comment because there’s a lot of countries that don’t let you do that now, with more popping up every day.
The UK has never been a bastion of democracy. Lmfao. They still have a house of lords for Christ’s sake.
is just a silly comment because there’s a lot of countries that don’t let you do that now, with more popping up every day.
It’s not a silly comment. You shouldn’t move to fascist countries, period, nor give them an edge. No one should support fascism. How is that hard to understand?
China for this as if western countries don’t also have their flavor of the same thing, really is.
while it is trending there in 2(two) of the “western” countries, china is there. Don’t support places that are fascist. Don’t move to places that are fascist. With democracy dead in the states, avoid it, don’t move there, don’t support it. Avoid buying products from fascist countries. Avoid buying their oil.
The UK has never been a bastion of democracy. Lmfao. They still have a house of lords for Christ’s sake.
and a Royal Pedophile.
I don’t know what we’re arguing about, it feels like we’re on the same page as I agree with pretty much everything you just wrote.
With that said, anyone in a newly minted fascist country calling China bad, is hypocrisy.
It’s hypocrisy even if they’re standing against fascism in their own country?
Kinda, I can say Trump is a child fucker and Xi sucks Pooh cock online, and I (or my family) won’t be thrown into a jail cell.
For now… at least.
Can’t say anything about freeing Palestine in the UK or you’ll get arrested though.
I can say Trump is a child fucker
You can scream it into a paper bag, sure.
But good luck keeping your job as a host on The View or a special investigator at the FBI.
Ah yes. Talent programs.
Why is the MAGA administration so hell bent on pushing China to the top as the global power?
I understand that Cluater B is going to Cluster B, that is how their wiring works. But why is everyone else around Trump supporting this agenda that only weakens and demeans the United States?
By design.
2016 Trump wrecked the US under Putins orders.
2025 Trump is wrecking the US in spite for losing in 2020.
Something you need to understand about the Americans here is that they’re not some scheming rats planning the most optimal way of bringing their autocratic future to bear through some hyperdimensional game of chess. They are idiots, all of them, with zero foresight, just reacting to things in impulsive, corrupt ways. The most foresight they have is displayed when they short stocks.
What is best for the public is not necessarily what is best for the ruling class.
tell that to French royalty or the Czars of Russia or the King of Italy or the last Chinese dynasty.
Sure, but as Americans how do they benefit from China rising to the top?
They are trying to get greater control over the US economy / resources / society. Such an oligarchy is inefficient, so the US will get outcompeted by China. But that is a price they are willing to pay, as long as they benefit personally.
Put another way, the cake will become smaller, but they’ll get a bigger slice of it.
From robber barons to robber despots. If they have enough, then they can be global as individuals, and to hell with everyone else.
Exactly.
Racist headline
Actually, no.
“woos” = more than one “Wu” (吳)
I think they were trying to explain their joke.
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